Accounts

How Reuters used public information to build the most comprehensive database of Taser-involved deaths yet

In a sweeping investigation, a team of Reuters reporters, editors, and
data analysts found massive discrepancies Taser’s manufacturer’s claim
that no one has died directly from the direct effects of the device’s
shock and the actual results of hundreds of autopsies. Hundreds of
public records requests around the country, plus other painstaking
open-source research, made the investigation possible.